Well, it’s that time again and I’ve FINALLY gotten my “foundation” art courses mostly done…done enough to finally be allowed to start my photography courses! I’m still stuck in a painting course and have two more crappy drawing classes to slog through of course, but it is so nice to finally be enjoying school again.

My Photo III class assigned color film work for the first project. I had to dig out my Canon Rebel K2 and blow the dust off of it, only to find out something’s wrong with it. It keeps powering off and blaming the brand new batteries…very irritating. Now I own 5 non-working film SLRs.

Anyway, our first assignment is playing with complimentary, analogous and tertiary color combinations. We looked at some examples in class and talked about what the colors conveyed in each image. I was thinking about the nudes that Annie Leibovitz did under those video lights. They made the skin look somewhat grotesque. I thought I’d play with the idea of unattractive skin lighting and think I got some OK stuff. I will post when I get my negatives scanned (assuming my camera malfunctions don’t earn me back some blank rolls.) I did some shots of my limbs under a gross green gelled flash against a deep red backdrop.

For my 2nd roll of film I wanted to do soothing colors and again broke out the flash gels and whipped together a tabletop studio. Here’s a couple test digital shots with lighting diagrams. I snooted my flash with my DIY snoot (made of cardboard and duct tape…FANCY) and put on a light green gel from my Rosco sample pack, I also took a custom white balance reading so the camera wouldn’t warm up the cool light.

Today we had to do a group assignment, each group taking a color and shooting it with it’s complimentary color and analagous color and then an example of it in a monochromatic shot. My group shot for a while on campus and then went home with one third of the assignment a piece to make a few extra images. This was my favorite for mine (I had complimentary).

And two others:

(Another complementary)

(monochromatic)

Now that the fun homework is done, I’m off to read text books. Blerg.